Uneasiness in New Zealand about the clash of both ferns and blacks

This is called dumpling. Last weekend, the New Zealand Football Association published a press release intended to … apologize to its supporters. Indeed, the latter faced a difficult choice: choosing between the first game of the All Blacks’ tour, or the quarter-final of the Black Ferns, the women’s selection, who were playing their quarter-final against Wales at Whangarei.

The men’s match kicked off at 6.50pm NZT and the girls’ match was scheduled… just forty minutes later. A huge mistake that not only upset Kiwi supporters, but also the fans of both events.

Annoyed launch

In the face of the outcry caused by this error, New Zealand Rugby published a press release explaining the facts New Zealand Rugby recognizes the match between the Black Ferns quarter-final against Wales in Whangarei and the All Blacks test against Japan in Tokyo on Saturday. Unfortunately, when the JFA fixed the kick-off time for the Test, NZR failed to take into account that World Rugby had already predicted that regardless Regardless of the outcome, the World Cup host nation will play in the second quarter-final.

You will appreciate the “didn’t take into account” formula … New Zealand Rugby tried to delay the start of the All Blacks match, but you can imagine that the Japanese Federation, which has already sold out almost all tickets for their meeting. , to reject. At the end of the press release, NZR suggested this solution: Watch the All Blacks game live from 6.50pm, then watch the Black Ferns quarter on replay on Three from 8.30pm.

Watch the quarter-final replay, when the result was already readable on all smartphones in the country? Not terrible coming from the host country…